Re: Lightweight setup (a la SpamPal)

2005-02-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Cris Fuhrman wrote on Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:23:33 -0500: > I think our sysadmins (and I'm sure they're not unique) don't have > enough time to feed ham/spam to the B. filters. Given the > effectiveness of SpamPal's simple approach, it seems to me that the > return on investment for correct Bayesi

Lightweight setup (a la SpamPal)

2005-02-20 Thread Cris Fuhrman
Hello, First off, let me say that I'm an indirect user of SpamAssassin, and have great respect for the time and engergy that has been put into developing and deploying it. At my day job, our sysadmins have been using SpamAssassin for over a year. I'm not sure they feed it ham/spam as needed to ke

email envelopes with SA and bayes

2005-02-20 Thread Joe Flowers
Before I'm testing each message with SpamAssassin, I'm prepending the envelope to the email message. Can anyone comment on the positive or ill-effects this might have on the SA scoringI'm not running the envelope-pre-pended-messages thru bayes (sa-learn) though. I usually run messages thru s

Re: How to run spamd as root

2005-02-20 Thread Thomas Cameron
- Original Message - From: "Paul J. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:46 AM Subject: How to run spamd as root Hi, How do I run spamd as root? I've tried the --username=root, which the man page implies will work, but always get the "fatal: cannot run as no

Re: How to run spamd as root

2005-02-20 Thread Joe Polk
If you don't use the -u option, it should run as root by default. -- <> -- Original Message --- From: "Paul J. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:46:31 - Subject: How to run spamd as root > Hi, > > How do I run spamd as root? I've tried the --usernam

How to run spamd as root

2005-02-20 Thread Paul J. Smith
Hi, How do I run spamd as root? I've tried the --username=root, which the man page implies will work, but always get the "fatal: cannot run as nonexistent user or root with -u option ". I know that I should probably be added a new user etc, but this is a safe situation and I'd like to know how

RE: setting up SA 3.02 from cpan - errors - won't install without force

2005-02-20 Thread Philipp Snizek
Hi I'm moving my sa 3.01 box to another box (better hardware) with SA 3.02. It would be a pitty to loose all what SA 3.01 has learnt. Can I migrate SA 3.01 data to the new box? Thank you Philipp

Re: make test on recent SuSE 9.0 fails

2005-02-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 20 Feb 2005 02:13:45 +0100: > > Install the Storable module. > Thanks for the other private Mail, Bob. I compared /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Storable/ with a new system where I applied the SuSE updates first and then used CPAN to install any rem

Re: setting up SA 3.02 from cpan - errors - won't install without force

2005-02-20 Thread Joacim Ekroth
Thank you These modules have been installed before SA. I re-installed SA 3.02 and the t/dnslb error was gone (???), however the other problem Maybe it was a small delay in the DNS-answers the first time, and now you had the answers cached. The first install maybe was a little too fast? :-) (t/spf)

RE: setting up SA 3.02 from cpan - errors - won't install without force

2005-02-20 Thread Philipp Snizek
> > Hi > > > > I get these error messages. Could anybody please tell me > what's wrong? > > > > t/dnsbl.Not found: P_2 = > > [127.0.0.4] # Failed > > test 1 in t/SATest.pm at line 530 > > Not found: P_7 = > > > > # Failed test 2 in t/SATest.pm at line 530 fai

Re: setting up SA 3.02 from cpan - errors - won't install without force

2005-02-20 Thread Joacim Ekroth
Philipp Snizek wrote: Hi I get these error messages. Could anybody please tell me what's wrong? t/dnsbl.Not found: P_2 = [127.0.0.4] # Failed test 1 in t/SATest.pm at line 530 Not found: P_7 = # Failed test 2 in t/SATest.pm at line 530 fail #2 Just a guess, but ma

setting up SA 3.02 from cpan - errors - won't install without force

2005-02-20 Thread Philipp Snizek
Hi I get these error messages. Could anybody please tell me what's wrong? t/dnsbl.Not found: P_2 = [127.0.0.4] # Failed test 1 in t/SATest.pm at line 530 Not found: P_7 = # Failed test 2 in t/SATest.pm at line 530 fail #2 Not found: P_4 = [127.0.0.1, 127

[SARE] Rules updates: Rolex

2005-02-20 Thread Robert Menschel
SARE has finally completed a first pass evaluation of several sets of submitted rules concerning Rolex spam. You'll find a beta test of these rules at http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_specific_rolex.cf You'll find a hit-frequencies report for these rules at the top of that file. The 70_

[SARE] Rules updates: URI

2005-02-20 Thread Robert Menschel
Just a quick note that SARE has published new URI rules files. New files 70_sare_uri0.cf, 70_sare_uri1.cf, 70_sare_uri3.cf, and 70_sare_uri_eng.cf replace the previous file 70_sare_uri.cf The old file has been left in our http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/ directory, unchanged. We expect to dele

Re: SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, February 19, 2005, 8:05:05 AM, Jay Levitt wrote: > Just checked.. there is only one resolv.conf on the system, in > /etc/resolv.conf, and it correctly points to my own machine, which runs > a caching named (actually caching for the world, authoritative for my > own domain). Note tha

Re: SA 3.01 eventually stops noticing DNSBLs

2005-02-20 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, February 19, 2005, 8:05:05 AM, Jay Levitt wrote: > It's important to note that the DNS lookups DO work for a while after > starting mimedefang; it's just at some point after days/weeks that it > stops trying (or stops succeeding). You may want to check that your name server *only* th